The mortician that was trying to cope with the pungent stench from the monstrosity of the cadaver and carcass said that the misery index of death was so vile it was like septic flesh and could only leave an obituary in flames.

If a nurse or other professional comes into your room to change a dressing or do anything to a wound, change a catheter, or in essence perform any kind of function that results in stuff going inside your body, tell them to wash their hands first, before they touch you.

I had no idea bacteria cause nightmares. I thought it was the work of sexy demons like Incubi and Succubi.

Live and learn.

It does make sense though, because if you eat a lot of nasty junk food before bed, or even a nice cheese, you get nightmares.

Yogurt doesn't seem to cause nightmares. Must be the friendly pro-health bacteria in the yoghurt.

When I need to go to the bathroom when I am asleep, I dream of filthy toilets or else that I am naked except for maybe a pajama top or something. This is my early warning dream system telling, wake the Hell up and go to the bathroom.

If you have children who are wetting the bed, tell them to dream about places they can't pee to wake themselves up. Let me know if it works. I think it might help program the part of their brain that stands guard during sleep. The brain thinks in metaphors. It doesn't do similes very well as far as I can tell.

brantgoose: I had no idea bacteria cause nightmares. I thought it was the work of sexy demons like Incubi and Succubi.

Live and learn.

It does make sense though, because if you eat a lot of nasty junk food before bed, or even a nice cheese, you get nightmares.

Yogurt doesn't seem to cause nightmares. Must be the friendly pro-health bacteria in the yoghurt.

When I need to go to the bathroom when I am asleep, I dream of filthy toilets or else that I am naked except for maybe a pajama top or something. This is my early warning dream system telling, wake the Hell up and go to the bathroom.

If you have children who are wetting the bed, tell them to dream about places they can't pee to wake themselves up. Let me know if it works. I think it might help program the part of their brain that stands guard during sleep. The brain thinks in metaphors. It doesn't do similes very well as far as I can tell.

Ryker's Peninsula:The mortician that was trying to cope with the pungent stench from the monstrosity of the cadaver and carcass said that the misery index of death was so vile it was like septic flesh and could only leave an obituary in flames.

Znuh:If a nurse or other professional comes into your room to change a dressing or do anything to a wound, change a catheter, or in essence perform any kind of function that results in stuff going inside your body, tell them to wash their hands first, before they touch you.

This is so lax that it's shocking.

Wash your damn hands.

That is a sterile procedure, I've seen it done dozens and dozens of times, always with sterile gloves. Although they aren't "changed" very often, but they do get inserted. These days you may get one inserted multiple times because insurance companies think that no one should have a catheter in anymore, so instead you get in and out caths multiple times.

Once credited as a "hero" for discovering penicillin in 1928, Fleming is nowrecognized as the "Father of the Superbug" that will KILL US ALL!

/Tune in//Turn on//Drop dead

It's not his fault. Blame people who go to the doctor for the flu or a runny nose and just have to have "a shot"; and the quack doctors who give them one knowing full well that penicillin does nothing for viruses.

Seriously, the US needs to expropriate a large and high tech R&D facility from one of the major drug manufacturers at the public's expense and have government researchers with NIH developing new antibiotics. There's no excuse for the fact that there are no new antibiotics in production. Either subsidize it heavily or do it yourself if you're the government. You don't just ignore the problem.

Gyrfalcon:It's not his fault. Blame people who go to the doctor for the flu or a runny nose and just have to have "a shot"; and the quack doctors who give them one knowing full well that penicillin does nothing for viruses.

Once credited as a "hero" for discovering penicillin in 1928, Fleming is nowrecognized as the "Father of the Superbug" that will KILL US ALL!

/Tune in//Turn on//Drop dead

It's not his fault. Blame people who go to the doctor for the flu or a runny nose and just have to have "a shot"; and the quack doctors who give them one knowing full well that penicillin does nothing for viruses.

That's what placebos are for.

The pathway to hell... etc.

And to think that for all those years we pointed the FINGER at Fermi and Oppenheimer.

Ivo Shandor:Gyrfalcon: It's not his fault. Blame people who go to the doctor for the flu or a runny nose and just have to have "a shot"; and the quack doctors who give them one knowing full well that penicillin does nothing for viruses.

Don't forget about the agricultural industry's contribution.

Same theory, really. "Let's give these cows lots of antibiotics to keep them from getting sick! That can't possibly cause any problems! Right doc?"

Mark Ratner:The bacteria have become self-aware. Everybody panic!!, or just wash your hands after you pee and you'll be fine.

I have always wondered about that one. My johnson has been hanging out in clean underwear all day long. My hands have been typing on a keyboard that hasn't been cleaned since the Reagan Administration. Wouldn't it make more sense to wash my hands before I pee?

Medic Zero:That is a sterile procedure, I've seen it done dozens and dozens of times, always with sterile gloves. Although they aren't "changed" very often, but they do get inserted. These days you may get one inserted multiple times because insurance companies think that no one should have a catheter in anymore, so instead you get in and out caths multiple times.

Oh, the fun part comes in with central lines.

If a physician inserts one in an emergency without putting on a mask and hair cap, it has to be pulled within 8 - 12 hours depending on the facility and a new one inserted.

You have to have written physician justification and review after each shift as to why the patient needs to keep a central line.

Dressing changes are a highly sterile procedure, they make our nurses sterile gown, mask, and net up when doing it.

I do not envy, or want the job of a PICC/Vascular nurse. If I had to do hours of dressing changes every shift, I'd go insane.

We've had a treatment for these things for a century now. They're called bacteriophages and they work much better than antibiotics. Sadly, the drug companies can't make money off of them so they'd rather just let thousands of people die while they search for a more profitable cure.

Scythed:We've had a treatment for these things for a century now. They're called bacteriophages and they work much better than antibiotics. Sadly, the drug companies can't make money off of them so they'd rather just let thousands of people die while they search for a more profitable cure.

No, the problem is that each phage strain is specific to an individual bacterial strain, and are absolutely useless in multi-organism infections and time-critical sepsis where the delay to wait on a C&S might cause a patient's death. You have to determine what is causing the infection, deliver the phage to that source of the infection without provoking an immune response, and then effectively do so in concentrations which kills the bacteria. The Soviets did a LOT of research during the cold war on phage therapy, and the introduction of a foreign antigenic substance poses the risk of provoking further immune response as well. In addition to this, some phages impart increased pathogenicity or toxicity to certain bacterial strains, like the EHC-Toxin gene for E. Coli.

And that's ignoring the fact that there's a reason some antibiotics are bacteriostatic and not bacteriocidal. It's generally a bad idea to cause mass cell lysis of Gram Positive organisms, like Staphylococcus, due to enterotoxins.